Benefits of Participation
Co-Create the change you want to see in the world!
The Global Summit's outcome driven programs unite six diverse Partners in Empowerment (PIE) sectors in synergistic action to deliver powerful new economic partnerships and a transformative, hands-on learning experience.
Which sector(s) are you most part of?
- For-Profit Businesses - Who: Aspiring and established sustainable businesses, Venture Capitalists, Investors, consultants/ advocacy groups harnessing market forces to build a sustainable world. Benefits...
We're all in the PIE!
For-Impact Organizations – Who: Community based and international nonprofits, Foundations, Govt. Service Agencies dedicated to Social, Economic, and Environmental impact.
Benefits of Co-Creation:
* New relationships at the event advance program collaboration between complementary organizations and funding partners
* Workshops deliver multi-sector approaches, how to identify win-win strategies and key partners to advance goals
* Promote social enterprise income generation for NGO's, the event will provide opportunities for matchmaking between NGO's, sustainable businesses and social entrepreneurs
* Participate in development of Portal called 1pie.org to enable online training
* Develop criteria and qualify for (matching) grants to sustain strategic partnerships around the year that advance each groups’ unique purpose
Education & Research Institutions – Who: Private, Govt. & Nonprofit educational institutions & practitioners, Scientists, Technologists and those in academia advancing evidence based knowledge, research, understanding, technologies and other tools for a sustainable world.
Benefits of Co-Creation:
* Participate in SEED Change Forum providing opportunity to explore linkages between sectors particularly education, green technologies and Social Entrepreneurialism
* Participate in workshops that highlight the key role of education in developing World Changing technologies and approaches
* Showcase & develop Holistic and Interdisciplinary approaches that inspire people to find and new innovative ways to learn, seek solutions and implement them in the field
* Explore the role of Web 2.0 Tools in enabling distance and online learning through conferences and between networks
For-Profit Businesses - Who: Venture Capitalists, Investors, corporations and sustainable business consultants/ advocacy groups harnessing market forces to build a sustainable world.
Benefits of Co-Creation:
* PR and financial benefits of a growing company through that PR
* Access to larger network of businesses
* Access to government officials previously not accessible
* Learn about complementary as well as competing technologies to help guide their R&D strategies
* Participate in multi-sector workshops to better understand and find new ideal partners
* Organize / Be part of Technology workshops and exhibits that promote your work
* Link with social enterprises/entrepreneurs to implement programs as part of a bottom up approach
* Link with NGO's that might improve or lead to the development of Corporate Social Responsibility programs .
Media & Communications Groups – Who: Print, Radio, Web, Events, Public Information Agencies and journalists who uphold truth in journalism & conscious messaging to support an informed public.
Benefits of Co-Creation:
* Participation in workshops to link and identify multi-sector development strategies for responsible media groups
* Access to potential clients and collaborations at the TGS
* Access to target audiences and to expand message by building coalitions
* Publicity and recognition of their work
* Networking for mutual benefit and professional gain to catapult their ideas and creations
* Renewed faith in media’s role in democracy the power the media has to create a more perfect society
Artists in Action - Who: Musicians, visual and performing artists, actors, and creative celebrities. “Whether through visual art, music or poetry, Artists speak with integrity and the world listens"
Benefits of Co-Creation:
* Opportunity for Musicians & other Performing Artists to offer their content in the TGS concert series
* Chance to link up with Businesses & Event Producers that can help support their creative efforts
* Participate in workshops that demonstrate and highlight the importance of art and creativity in building mutually supportive and empowering networks
* (Celebrities) feeling connected to “normal people” and involved in something outside the world of media
Social Entrepreneurs – Who: Inspired Citizens, non-profit & governmental visionaries & innovators who create solutions having a SOCIAL PROFIT benefiting other people & the planet - with the same dedication a business entrepreneur seeks financial profit.
Benefits of Co-Creation:
* Recognition of their own work to a much larger audience than typical for this sector
* Networking for mutual benefit and professional gain to catapult their ideas and creations
* Knowledge exchange between sectors and networks that provide opportunity to build critical mass for social impact
* Connect with Educators, Sustainable Businesses and NGO's to overcome initiative bottlenecks through multi-sector collaboration- Politicians, UN International Leaders and foreign policy makers
* Greater opportunity to implement their policies through a civil society organized forum with large network of multi-sector collaboration
* Better understand and develop creative policies to meet diverse stakeholder interests
* Structured, goal-oriented collaboration with businesses (less special interest, more common goal), that leads to renewed faith in their work and roles as government officials
